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Show km HAN'SW Cfflfl POUND BY WOflHM; IT WILL FIEAN Hi FORTUNE After searching for years for the lost claim of a dead prospector, Mrs. -Rose O'Connor of Newberry, Nev., has at last lad her efforts rewarded, and if tho ore which baa bees brought 'to Salt Lake City from the claims is a good indication of what would be within with-in a mine, Mrs. O'Connor -will hare more money than she will ever be able to spend. Several years ago a prospector by the name of Cruthers discovered the claims, erected a stone cabin and started to work. The claims are in the North Star group near the new district of Newberry mountain, just south of feearchlight in Nevada. While at work Cruthers became thirsty for a view of city life and journeyed across the desert to Needles, CaL, thirty muee away. After spend-mg spend-mg considerable time there he started for his claims. His friends warned him to take a bottle, of water along. He refused and instead .took with him a flask of whisky. That was the last time be, was -seen live. HU dead body was later found on the desert. For. a number of years Mrs. O'Connor, O'Con-nor, who is one of . the wealthiest women prospectors in the West, has' searched the hills for the claims left behind. be-hind. - .Following a trail a short timo ago she came to the etone cabin. From that it was easy to pick her way to the claims. K. A. Sermon of the real estate and brokerage firm of Buckwalter & Sermon Ser-mon returned yesterday from a trip to .Newberry mountain. His stories of the wealth of the country m the vicinity sounds like a fairy tale, but 'at the same time he brought samples of ore that will talk for themielves. It is practically a virgin country and Sermon declares he has been looking out for himself . From the North Star claims of the dead prospector Mr. Sermon took Tock that assays 110 to 140 a ton, while in another claim in the vicinity Mr. Sermon Ser-mon found a light talc formation in which gold running $200 to the ton was found. A sample of this was panned yesterday and the tailings panned three times and still there was snow of color. Mr. Sermon declares that the coun- i try is practically new and that the prospects are more than bright. He has taken options on the mines owned by Mrs. O'Connor and also many of those owned bv J. J. McDonald, a prospector who lias been iu the country coun-try for several years. It is the intention of Mr. Sermon to form a company t operate the claims in the North Star group. It is to be the Utah Xevai.i Gold Mining company. |